The Ten Best Los Angeles Hipster Neighborhoods

Because Silver Lake Isn't The Only One, Forbes.

You guys heard about that absolutely absurd Forbes article where Silver Lake was named the “best Hipster neighborhood”, right? We thought so. The news breaking last Thursday like a cold wave up the spine, inspiring a lot of cringes and protestations. It’s an absurd notion and, although Silver Lake is “hipstery,” isn’t that 90% of Los Angeles? Let’s face it: Forbes has no idea what a hipster is and certainly isn’t aware that Los Angeles is a center of people doing their own thing. Silver Lake wears their people on the surface, we guess. After some e-mailing and Tweeting with Alissa Walker , we wanted to follow up Forbes’ article with a few other Los Angeles neighborhoods that are pretty great. Take that, Forbes!

To contextualize their article, with data from NextDoor.com (whatever that is) they counted down the twenty “best hipster neighborhoods.” Walkability and coffee shops in addition to food trucks, famers markets, bars, concentration of artists, and more were taking into account. Silver Lake won because it–apparently–is home to the “nation’s most lauded food trucks and farmer’s markets” (?????) and because it has “one of the largest creative class communities in the country” (??????). They note lots of Modernist architecture is in he neighborhood, which actually is a fact–but there’s lots of Modernist architecture throughout all of Los Angeles. Whatever. Anyway, here are some other places they and NextDoor should consider for their next round.

I’m sure we missed a lot of best hipster neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Any other spots we should point out to Forbes? Or is Silver Lake really the only place in Los Angeles where artists, food trucks, farmers markets, and coffee shops abound? Do we all need to figure out a definition of the word “hipster” to present to Forbes?